The point is that the act of typing it does help understand the code.
I don't know if there's any psychological basis for this, or if anyone else does this, but personally I jot down loads of notes when learning things and playing with ideas. However, I rarely read back over them. Instead, just the act of writing them down is sufficient to stick them in my brain.
I guess the same applies to learning with code samples.
I don't know if there's any psychological basis for this, or if anyone else does this, but personally I jot down loads of notes when learning things and playing with ideas. However, I rarely read back over them. Instead, just the act of writing them down is sufficient to stick them in my brain.
I guess the same applies to learning with code samples.